cmavo hesitation noise; maintains the floor while speaker decides what to say next. Note: completely invisible to grammar (except in the cluster ybu), and thus can't even be quoted by zo. Use "lo depsna" instead if you wish to refer to the "word" y itself. See denpa, sance

lujvo x1 is an onomatopoeic word meaning x2 in language x3, based on sound x4 emitted by x5 Syn. {sa'ei zei valsi}, onmatopo'eia. Note: do not be confused by the similarity to fu'ivla; snafu'ivla does not necessarily indicate a loan word; rather, it refers to copying (fukpi) a sound (sance).